Have you been talking to your friends about home remedies for menstrual cramps? What types of at home remedies did they mention? Did they use homeopathic remedies for painful period cramps and PMS? Did any of your friends mention an herbal home remedy? Which ones were fast acting, natural, easy, and enough to eliminate severe symptoms of PMS?
What is the Best Home Remedy for Menstrual Cramps?
There are literally hundreds of home remedies for menstrual cramps but the one that is best is always going to be the one that works best for you. What works best for you may vary from year to year, so don’t be afraid to try new ones.
What works best for you will not always be best for your friends either. Although you are all female and you all have periods, your bodies vary enough in many different ways. Some of you may have better diets than others, and this may mean that some of your friends have cramping that is pretty severe, while you may not have cramps for more than a few hours.
Easiest Home Remedy for Menstrual Cramps
One of the easiest home remedies for menstrual cramps is a pretty recently developed new type of panty pad worn during your period that contains a negative ion strip in it. The panty pads are white as usual, and the green negative ion strip is located right in the middle of the pad, near the top layer.
Ion channels in the cells of your body absorb the negative ions. You may be familiar with the negative ions that are released into the air at waterfall locations. By breathing in these negative ions generated by the falling water, you end up feeling better and breathing better. You walk away from the waterfall feeling renewed.
By wearing the negative ion strip in your panty pad, the friction of walking generates the negative ions. Also, a little moisture in the area will generate the negative ions that are then absorbed into the cells lining the reproductive tract. Thus, wearing the panty pad with the negative ion strip is actually a quick home remedy that helps decrease cramps.
Women who have worn these panty pads notice that their menstrual cramps lighten up over time. Some note that the cramps lessen with the very first day while others need a few cycles for the menstrual symptoms to go away. You’ll have to try them yourself to see if they help your period cramps go away.
Remember though that just because you don’t have period cramps any more after using these panty pads, it doesn’t mean that you should pay less attention to your diet.
Other Home Remedies to Get Rid of Period Cramps
1. Drink a cup of hot ginger tea.
The ginger acts to decrease painful period cramps because of its anti-spasmodic action. The warmth of the tea also warms you on the inside, too, bringing the feeling you are comforted. This is one of the home remedies for menstrual cramps that goes back hundreds of years.
2. Exercise
When you exercise, you end up increasing the blood flow to all parts of your body. When different parts of your body get the added nutrients and oxygen, they feel renewed and send out fewer pain signals. Exercise also increases endorphins, chemicals created in your brain to help decrease pain and make you feel good.
3. Have sexual intercourse and an orgasm.
Sexual intercourse is a way to increase blood flow to the area and speed up the removal of waste products. It also decreases congestion. Having an orgasm allows you to release quite a bit of stress, an important thing for this time of the month to ease your periods.
4. Take a period vitamin.
A period vitamin is one that has been formulated specifically to address the needs of your body during your period. It’s not for women who are in menopause; it’s for you if you’re menstruating. Whether or not these other home remedies for menstrual cramps work, it’s still a good idea to take a period vitamin when on your period.
